VOCAL ENSEMBLE

ALEXANDER LINGAS, MUSIC DIRECTOR RESURRECTION

2021-22

CAPPELLA ROMANA’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

Cappella Romana. More than concerts.

WELCOME TO CAPPELLA ROMANA’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON! Voices resurrected. After the pandemic, Cappella Romana wants to help you experience a resurrection to a new life ahead: a life with music of ineffable beauty. Discover “a sound world of unique beauty” (Gramophone) in East and West with professional vocal ensemble Cappella Romana. Become a Season Ticket Holder today and fill your year with experiences of joy. From medieval Byzantine masterpieces to Arvo Pärt’s greatest a cappella choral work. YOUR SEASON TICKET HOLDER BENEFITS INCLUDE

• Savings up to 15% off standard ticket prices And a return visit by The Tallis Scholars. • Free ticket exchanges and lost ticket replacement • Early access to special events Traditional to experimental. • One additional FREE ticket to any concert Transcendent majesty to profound intimacy. • 20% savings on all Cappella Romana CDs WHAT’S IN STORE FOR YOU Concert experiences unlike any others.

cappellaromana.org / 503.236.8202 A reflection on our shared humanity, with the ensemble whose SEP 24 sound is “like jeweled light flooding the space.”

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Sir John Tavener (1944–2013) Panikhida (Choral Memorial Service) (1986)

John Michael Boyer (b. 1978) Byzantine Chants for a Funeral, in English (2013)

We all need ways to grieve the losses due to COVID-19. Cappella Romana offers here the rarely heard funeral service for mixed voices by the late Sir John Tavener, with Byzantine funeral chants composed by John Michael Boyer for Sir John’s funeral in 2013. These works help us to embrace courage and hope for the future.

Performed in memory of those who have died from COVID-19.

John Michael Boyer, associate music director

FRIDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2021, 7:30 P.M. St. James Cathedral A COVID 9th & Marion, First Hill, Seattle

LIVESTREAM cappellaromana.org/livestream REQUIEM MUSIC FOR REMEMBRANCE cappellaromana.org / 503.236.8202 “This music on its own has the power to DEC 3 heal your soul and transform you from the present moment.”

CINEMUSICAL

Benedict Sheehan (b. 1980) Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom New Works for Christmastide (World Premiere)

Before Christmas, experience Benedict Sheehan’s transcendent setting of the Orthodox Divine Liturgy in English. Cappella Records released this work sung by The Saint Tikhon Choir last year, and now we can share it with you live as only Cappella Romana can.

Featuring Chicago-based baritone Michael Hawes as the priest, Mark Powell as the deacon, and Russian- style basses including the Grammy-winning basso profundo Glenn Miller. The composer conducts.

BENEDICT SHEEHAN Benedict Sheehan, guest conductor

FRIDAY 3 DECEMBER 2021, 7:30 P.M. DIVINE St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church 2100 Boyer Avenue East, Montlake, Seattle, Wash.

LIVESTREAM cappellaromana.org/livestream recording available cappellarecords.com IN ENGLISH LITURGY cappellaromana.org / 503.236.8202 14 “the finest scholarship aligned with artistry of JAN the highest order.”

FANFARE

WORLD PREMIERE PROGRAM Medieval Byzantine Chant and Imperial Acclamations c. 1400 Medieval English Chant and Polyphony for the Sarum Rite

At Christmastide 1400, King Henry IV of England received at his court Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Emperor Manuel II, who was on a quest through Europe seeking aid against the Ottomans.

Manuel enjoyed lavish entertainment from his English hosts, who were in awe at his devotion to daily services chanted in Greek during his visit. CHRISTMAS 1400, LONDON We celebrate this historic East-West encounter at London’s Eltham Palace—between the singers of the two royal chapels—with a newly researched program A in Greek and Latin for Christmas and Epiphany. BYZANTINE.. Alexander Lingas, music director and founder

FRIDAY 14 JANUARY 2022, 7:30 P.M. EMPEROR AT St. James Cathedral 9th & Marion, First Hill, Seattle

KING LIVESTREAM HENRY’S COURT cappellaromana.org/livestream cappellaromana.org / 503.236.8202 Cappella Romana presents FEB 25 another one-of-a-kind concert sure to be “simply, beautiful.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Помн1луй мS, Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) Kanon Pokajanen (Kanon of Repentance) (1997)

Arvo Pärt’s largest a cappella choral work, the Kanon Pokajanen, is a work for our time.

Б0же, The Eastern Orthodox understanding of repentance is not morose sorrow for the past. Instead it creates optimism for the future: from the Greek metánoia, a change of mind, a fundamental transformation of one’s outlook.

помн1луй Pärt’s expansive musical meditation on the true meaning of repentance will take your breath away. And give you breath to change your own mind no matter what life brings. ARVO PÄRT мS Alexander Lingas, music director and founder KANON FRIDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2022, 7:30 P.M. St. James Cathedral 9th & Marion, First Hill, Seattle

LIVESTREAM POKAJANEN cappellaromana.org/livestream THE KANON OF REPENTANCE cappellaromana.org / 503.236.8202 “Cappella Romana live up to their JUN 3 reputation as the foremost representatives of the Byzantine choral tradition.”

GAPPLEGATE CLASSICAL-MODERN MUSIC REVIEW

Byzantine Chant and Polyphony Choral works by Michael Adamis (1929–2013), Theodore Bogdanos (1932–2019), Steven Cardiasmenos (b. 1958), Frank Desby (1922–92), Peter Michaelides (1930–2017), and Tikey Zes (b. 1927)

Follow a 1000-year journey of Byzantine music, from medieval Constantinople to the Greek communities of California. Infused with 19th-century Italian, Russian, and Viennese choral traditions, the musical seeds carried by Greek immigrants to the New World blossomed in the next generation with soaring Renaissance style and Hollywood flair.

John Michael Boyer, associate music director FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO FRIDAY 3 JUNE 2022, 7:30 P.M. St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church 2100 Boyer Avenue East, Montlake, Seattle, Wash.

LIVESTREAM cappellaromana.org/livestream recording available CALIFORNIA cappellarecords.com GREEK AND GREEK AMERICAN CHORAL WORKS cappellaromana.org / 503.236.8202 "A sensual experience 2021-22 SEASON TICKETS ORDER FORM FOR LIVESTREAMS VISIT meant to induce a cappellaromana.org/livestream Fri 24 Sep 2021, 7:30 P.M. SPECIAL EVENT ▼ A COVID REQUIEM St. James Cathedral, First Hill transcendent state." SHEEHAN DIVINE Fri 3 Dec 2021, 7:30 P.M. LITURGY IN ENGLISH St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, Montlake SAN FRANCISCO CLASSICAL VOICE A BYZANTINE EMPEROR AT Fri 14 Jan 2022, 7:30 P.M. THE TALLIS SCHOLARS KING HENRY’S COURT St. James Cathedral, First Hill ARVO PÄRT Fri 25 Feb 2022, 7:30 P.M. KANON POKAJANEN St. James Cathedral, First Hill THE GOLDEN AGE OF SPANISH POLYPHONY FROM CONSTANTINOPLE Fri 3 Jun 2022, 7:30 P.M. CHOOSE YOUR CONCERTS YOUR CHOOSE TO CALIFORNIA St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, Montlake

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